Displaying LINC Initiatives about: Hickman Mills
Ideas on reopening schools during COVID are churning at warp speed. Here’s one example, in the name of safe-spacing: How about overflow class space and after-school programs in church basements?
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The Hickman Mills school board has selected Yaw Obeng to be the south Kansas City school district’s next superintendent in a unanimous decision. Obeng currently serves as superintendent in the Burlington School District in Burlington, VT
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The Hickman Mills school board announced its three finalists for superintendent, naming two out-of-state superintendents and an assistant superintendent in Kansas City.
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The Hickman Mills school board is interviewing — via Zoom — six semi-finalists this week who are vying to be the district’s next superintendent. The board expects to present the finalists early next week to the public, posting resumes and video interviews by the board.
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Hickman Mills’ new interim superintendent Carl Skinner, currently serves as deputy superintendent of student services. He will succeed Yolanda Cargile, who is leaving to become superintendent of the Center School District.
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LINC and area school districts now focus on how to help families get vital services of food, child care and internet connectivity as the coronavirus turns lives inside-out.
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In all, more than 200 families attended the summit, the district reported. They circulated among 75 vendors, enjoyed free lunch, let their children work on craft projects, watched student performances — and many families went home with raffle prizes provided by LINC.
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Turn the Page KC and LINC celebrated with Kansas City civic leaders who predicted that young lives touched by the books will soar higher on the same literary fuel that propelled them to where they are today.
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Hickman Mills Superintendent Yolanda Cargile isn’t going far at all to take on her next superintendent challenge. Five days after she told her Hickman Mills families that she was leaving the southeast Kansas City district, neighboring Center School District announced it had found its next leader: Dr. Cargile.
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New case managers in the Hickman Mills and Grandview school districts will help distressed families persist toward long-term health and stability, keeping their children in school and thriving.
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Deplorable conditions in the Nob Hill Apartments in southeast Kansas City are forcing more than 80 families into crisis, and the Community Assistance Council has put out a call for help get the families resettled in livable conditions — and support a healthier Kansas City community.
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The Hickman Mills School District is eyeing a bond issue election later this year and the board wants to hear what the community has in mind for potential projects.
The public is invited to a community forum Feb. 6 at 6 p.m. in the theater at Ruskin High School, 7000 E. 111th Street.
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We are happy to share LINC in Photos 2019 – a visual representation of LINC's impact and presence in the community.
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Turn the Page KC and LINC were chosen from among over 100 applicants to receive the award for books that will expand Turn the Page KC’s mission to mobilize the community to achieve reading proficiency at grade level or above for all third graders in Kansas City, Missouri.
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LINC’s annual “Lights On Afterschool” festivals are actually celebrations of LINC’s daily work with its partnering schools of strengthening the lives of children and empowering their families and neighborhoods.
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The Hickman Mills School District and Attendance Works are taking aim on chronic absence, working with LINC and several community partners to develop personalized strategies that could help all communities ease the heavy impacts of missed time in class.
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The Hickman Mills School District’s drive to become a high-performing district is preparing for launch.
The mission’s theme — “Together Towards Tomorrow” — will guide its year-opening festivities, welcoming families for enrollment to its schools and its LINC before- and after-school programs, and celebrating with a community rally.
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LINC’s partner school districts are gathering their families and communities to summer festivals to launch the start of the 2019-2020 school year with games, school supplies and enrollment opportunities.
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The 2019 School Suspension Summit in Kansas City challenged notions of power, race and identity to take on inequitable disparities in area school suspension data.
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The Ruskin Heights and Ruskin Hills neighborhoods are losing two elementary schools. The Hickman Mills School District is holding ceremonial open houses Saturday, June 8, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. because people want to come and remember.
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